11-letter words containing e, t, o, u
- trevor nunn — a university degree graded 2:1 (second class upper bracket)
- tricoloured — having three colours
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- triquetrous — three-sided; triangular.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
- trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
- true course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
- trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
- tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
- tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tuberculose — tuberculate.
- tuberculous — tubercular.
- tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- tukey, john — John Tukey
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
- turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- turkey cock — the male of the turkey.
- turkey trot — an early ragtime one-step, popular in the period of World War I
- turkey-trot — to dance the turkey trot.
- turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
- turtle soup — soup made from turtle flesh, usually of the green turtle
- turtledoves — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- tuxedo sofa — an overstuffed sofa with upholstered arms, either straight or curving slightly outward, at the same height as the back.
- twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- ultramodern — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- ultraviolet — beyond the violet in the spectrum, corresponding to light having wavelengths shorter than 4000 angstrom units.
- unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled